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Post subject: Re: No Code / Merkinball -- Rewriting History
Posted: Fri April 19, 2013 10:15 pm
likes rhythmic things that butt up against each other
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Lament wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote:
Merkinball feels much more like a dusting off of Vitalogy's workbench than it feels like the preliminary foundations for No Code.
I kinda think Merkinball feels like the seeds of the album #4 they decided not to make. I Got Shit, Long Road, Falling Down, Open Road, Red Mosquito, Lukin, Habit, Brain of J...the stuff that appeared in 1995 suggests that there may have initially been a very different direction they had in mind for the next record. There's probably a great alternate album to be put together there.
Very cool. And I think Stone wrote "Bayleaf around that time as well--it seems to fit in that sound.
Post subject: Re: No Code / Merkinball -- Rewriting History
Posted: Fri April 19, 2013 10:20 pm
jeeeesus relax already
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dkfan9 wrote:
Lament wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote:
Merkinball feels much more like a dusting off of Vitalogy's workbench than it feels like the preliminary foundations for No Code.
I kinda think Merkinball feels like the seeds of the album #4 they decided not to make. I Got Shit, Long Road, Falling Down, Open Road, Red Mosquito, Lukin, Habit, Brain of J...the stuff that appeared in 1995 suggests that there may have initially been a very different direction they had in mind for the next record. There's probably a great alternate album to be put together there.
Very cool. And I think Stone wrote "Bayleaf around that time as well--it seems to fit in that sound.
Post subject: Re: No Code / Merkinball -- Rewriting History
Posted: Sat April 20, 2013 12:42 am
A Return To Form
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Lament wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote:
Merkinball feels much more like a dusting off of Vitalogy's workbench than it feels like the preliminary foundations for No Code.
I kinda think Merkinball feels like the seeds of the album #4 they decided not to make. I Got Shit, Long Road, Falling Down, Open Road, Red Mosquito, Lukin, Habit, Brain of J...the stuff that appeared in 1995 suggests that there may have initially been a very different direction they had in mind for the next record. There's probably a great alternate album to be put together there.
Post subject: Re: No Code / Merkinball -- Rewriting History
Posted: Sat April 20, 2013 12:44 am
likes rhythmic things that butt up against each other
Joined: Sun April 07, 2013 2:38 am Posts: 506 Location: Gulfport, MS
its_not_1974 wrote:
Lament wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote:
Merkinball feels much more like a dusting off of Vitalogy's workbench than it feels like the preliminary foundations for No Code.
I kinda think Merkinball feels like the seeds of the album #4 they decided not to make. I Got Shit, Long Road, Falling Down, Open Road, Red Mosquito, Lukin, Habit, Brain of J...the stuff that appeared in 1995 suggests that there may have initially been a very different direction they had in mind for the next record. There's probably a great alternate album to be put together there.
Post subject: Re: No Code / Merkinball -- Rewriting History
Posted: Sat April 20, 2013 4:21 am
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I'm not on board with that nonsense either. S/T is a really good album with terrible production. Backspacer is crappy (by Pearl Jam standards at least) but it is still better than Bayleaf. And I like Bayleaf.
I might choose to put on those PJ albums more often, but Bayleaf is a more compelling, competent and satisfying listen. It's also a little bit harder to take, so it doesn't get the reps. But that's a good thing.
Post subject: Re: No Code / Merkinball -- Rewriting History
Posted: Sun April 21, 2013 3:28 am
Misplaced My Sponge
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 2:11 pm Posts: 5825
I can understand saying that the guitars on a new Stone album would be more interesting than a new PJ album, but saying Stone's voice sounds better than Eddie's is all sorts of crazy.
I can understand saying that the guitars on a new Stone album would be more interesting than a new PJ album, but saying Stone's voice sounds better than Eddie's is all sorts of crazy.
I think Stone's voice is more interesting and cleaner on Bayleaf than Ed's on Backspacer. Pound for pound. There are exceptions, of course. But Stone sounds great on that record. And I love all the little flourishes -- the cool vocal layering and hidden sounds.
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